Ambulatory Patient Safety & Quality Advisor

Vanderbilt Health; United States; On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderbilt Health is seeking a Nurse with ambulatory experience to support patient safety and high reliability initiatives across Adult Ambulatory/ VUH. You will review events, assist with case reviews and identify serious safety events, precursor events, and near misses while collaborating across departments to drive improvements.

The role requires RN or LPN licensure and a Bachelor’s degree, with preferred ambulatory/clinic experience and chart review exposure.

Qualifications

• Nursing experience (RN or LPN) is required.
• Ambulatory / Clinic experience is strongly preferred.
• Any experience with chart reviews is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree is required.

Responsibilities

• Patient Safety / High Reliability focus within Adult Ambulatory/ VUH for shared system learnings and risk prevention.
• Review of patient safety events, assisting with case reviews and identification of serious safety events, precursor events, near miss events, etc.
• Collaboration across QSRP, departments, and interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement strategies to improve care and processes.
• Identify and prioritize trends, system gaps, improvement opportunities and initiatives.
• Effective organizational skills/ project management of action plans and improvement initiatives with thorough documentation in our safety event electronic database.

Skills

Nursing experience (RN/LPN)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Vanderbilt Health is seeking a Nurse with ambulatory experience to support patient safety and high reliability initiatives across Adult Ambulatory/ VUH. You will review events, assist with case reviews and identify serious safety events, precursor events, and near misses while collaborating across departments to drive improvements.

The role requires RN or LPN licensure and a Bachelor’s degree, with preferred ambulatory/clinic experience and chart review exposure.